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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2025-01-07 17:27:17 +0100 |
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committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2025-01-10 11:58:59 +0100 |
commit | cacd9ae4bf801ff4125d8961bb9a3ba955e51680 (patch) | |
tree | 7c931c54895633e30d9ea7c3e8725d0a16bd57fc /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py | |
parent | 40384c840ea1944d7c5a392e8975ed088ecf0b37 (diff) |
poll_wait: add mb() to fix theoretical race between waitqueue_active() and .poll()
As the comment above waitqueue_active() explains, it can only be used
if both waker and waiter have mb()'s that pair with each other. However
__pollwait() is broken in this respect.
This is not pipe-specific, but let's look at pipe_poll() for example:
poll_wait(...); // -> __pollwait() -> add_wait_queue()
LOAD(pipe->head);
LOAD(pipe->head);
In theory these LOAD()'s can leak into the critical section inside
add_wait_queue() and can happen before list_add(entry, wq_head), in this
case pipe_poll() can race with wakeup_pipe_readers/writers which do
smp_mb();
if (waitqueue_active(wq_head))
wake_up_interruptible(wq_head);
There are more __pollwait()-like functions (grep init_poll_funcptr), and
it seems that at least ep_ptable_queue_proc() has the same problem, so the
patch adds smp_mb() into poll_wait().
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250102163320.GA17691@redhat.com/
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250107162717.GA18922@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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